William Henry Fitzhugh Lee

William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee (31 May 1837-15 October 1891) was the second son of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate States Army Major-General, and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-VA 8) from 4 March 1887 to 15 October 1891 (succeeding John S. Barbour Jr. and preceding Elisha E. Meredith).

Biography
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1837, the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Ann Custis. He was nicknamed "Rooney" at a young age to distinguish him from his cousin Fitzhugh Lee, and he enlisted in the US Army in 1857 as a second lieutenant, following in his father's footsteps. He served under Albert Sidney Johnston during the Utah War with the Mormons, and he resigned in 1858 to operate his New Kent County plantation. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, he served as an officer in the Confederate States Army cavalry, taking part in J.E.B. Stuart's ride-around of the Union army during the Seven Days Battles; back at home, his plantation was burned down, and his son Robert died of typhoid fever. He served in his cousin Fitzhugh's brigade during the 1862 Maryland campaign, and he was unhorsed and knocked unconscious at the Battle of South Mountain. After taking part in a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, he became a Brigadier-General, and, mere weeks after the death of his infant daughter in December 1862, he fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He was shot in the thigh at the Battle of Brandy Station and was captured, being returned on 25 February 1864 in exchange for Brigadier-General Neal S. Dow. In April 1864, he was promoted to Major-General, and he commanded a cavalry division during the Overland Campaign. He also fought in the Siege of Petersburg, and he became second-in-command of all of the CSA cavalry in Virginia when Wade Hampton III returned to South Carolina and Fitzhugh took overall command. In April 1865, he and his father surrendered to the Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and he returned to planting after the war. He served in the State Senate from 1875 to 1879 and in the US House of Representatives from 1887 until his death in 1891.